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thedoofwarrior wrote

A number of Q Anoners have recently won big Republican primaries. Most recently Lauren Boebert won the nom for a Republican house seat.

It's all about to get a notch more mainstream. Freaky stuff.

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MissPiggyOnRollerSkates OP wrote

Yeah, Q Anon going mainstream is definitely going to give more boomers brainworms. I've already talked to my mom about the madness of Q Anon so she'll be predisposed to consider it insane, and since she's typically more rational than my dad, I rely on on her to keep them both on the saner side of conservatism. Keeping my fingers crossed!

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Heywood_Floyd wrote

Sorry, there is no saner side to conservatism - the same party that gave us boring, "sane" Eisenhower gave us Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush. The Q Anon conspiracy reminds me of the Fundamentalist Christian belief of The Rapture (which is not even in the Bible) as sign of the "imminent return of Christ" which they were hoping was going to happen during the Reagan years, and Fundies were hip deep inside the Reagan administration (alongside the Moonies), and were part of the Bush I and Bush II administrations. The difference is that Q doesn't demand attention through the National Prayer Breakfast, it's all online playing out like a very dumb version of a John Le Carre novel.

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MissPiggyOnRollerSkates OP wrote

You make a good point, but they're my parents and I love them, so I have to cling to something, OK?

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Heywood_Floyd wrote

That's fine, it's just that bizarro crap flows through conservatism like a river. Today Q, tomorrow secret messages from Jesus as transmitted through wireless routers.

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PigPoopBalls wrote

Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia is likely to win a congressional seat in November tooπŸ™„πŸ™„

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